Babu Kalakrishnan saw fit to inform LI that:
>On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:12:42PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian typed:
>> inetd seems to be the problem - just check inetd.conf
>Hmm.. ?? My sendmail setup doesn't seem to use inetd at all ?
I seem to have been suffering from brain damage today ;)
>My bet is on DNS lookup failure - At startup sendmail tries to reverse
>lookup all network interfaces to find valid hostnames and if you haven't
>setup your DNS reverse zones properly, this can cause a problem.
More likely, he just has to set his hostfiles and hostname properly, and
add all the hosts required to sendmail.cw
>Enable the Option "DontProbeInterfaces" in sendmail.cf to avoid this lookup.
>(Remove the # in front of this option). In this case you should ensure that
>all your domain names/aliases are listed in your .cf file with Cw directives
>(or in /etc/mail/sendmail.cw if you have the use_cw_file feature turned on).
use_cw_file is on by default - at least with redhat.
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